China and Multilateral IP Governance

ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on China's multilateral intellectual property engagement, and WIPO and WTO are the key forums of this analysis. The case of China's engagement with WIPO demonstrates various dimensions of reciprocity. In China's engagement with the WTO, it analyses China's early attempt at agenda-setting in its first and only proposal on IP in standardisation and China's position and involvement in the recent COVID-19-related IP waiver negotiations at the TRIPS Council. China's multilateral IP engagement reveals that it has taken the strategy of multi-forum engagement in navigating international IP regime complexity. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.